Dr. Lynn Stauffer

Professor and Chair
Computer Science Department
Sonoma State University

Office: Darwin 116D
Phone: (707) 664-2268
Email: lynn.stauffer@sonoma.edu



Spring Greetings from the CS Chair (January 2008)

Fall Greetings from the CS Chair (August 2007)
Spring Greetings from the CS Chair (January 2007)
Greetings from the CS Chair (August 2006)

Spring 2008 Schedule

Office Hours
Monday 2:00-4:00pm, Tuesday 9:15-10:00am, Wednesday 2:00-3:00pm, Thursday 9:15-10:00am or by appointment

Academic Advising
Contact the CS Administrative Coordinator to schedule an appointment.

CS 252 Intro to Computer Organization
Lecture Tuesday/Thursday 8:00-9:15am Rachel Carson Hall, Room 14
Lab Thursday 2:00-4:50pm Darwin 25

CS 497 Internship

Picture of student Joe Andresen throwing pie at Dr. Stauffer Computer Science major, Joe Andresen, throws pie at Dr. Stauffer as part of Math Club's Pi Day festivities 2007. (That's Dr. Stauffer behind the paper plate.) Joe paid extra to get close up and personal.

Educational Background

Dr. Stauffer received her Ph.D. from the Information and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine.


Research

Dr. Stauffer's primary research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. She is particularly interested in the field of data compression. She has also worked with undergraduates doing research in programming languages, expert systems, database design and most recently computational geometry.

Data compression attempts to reduce the size of an input file by removing redundancy and is useful in many storage, communication, and security applications. One area of Dr. Stauffer's research considers parallel data compression where data is manipulated simultaneously by a collection of parallel processors. Her work includes compression methods on the systolic array and Xnet parallel machine models. On the Parallel Random Access Machine (PRAM), a theoretical model of parallel computation, Dr. Stauffer has published work on sublinear-time compression and she is investigating the extension of these research findings to include other existing computational models.


Other Interests

Sonoma State Univerity Student Chapter of the ACM
More information can be found at the Computer Club website.

Women in CS Group
This informal group works to support women in the computer science program at SSU. Gatherings are held approximately every month with a loose topic for discussion. Previous meetings have focused on issues and coping strategies for women in computer science. See WICS.